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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kdelibs: kstatusbar in trunk
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date:       2007-03-09 20:14:05
Message-ID: 200703091514.08907.mpyne () purinchu ! net
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On Friday 09 March 2007 15:08, Ian Wadham wrote:
> IMHO frames in KStatusbar are a useful way to separate visually the text
> in different items and improve readability for the end-user.  They look
> "ugly", IMO, because the frames come hard up against the text.  If you
> include some white space before and after the text, they look OK.
>
> Is there some way KDE or Qt could automatically insert white space,
> along the lines of the spacers used in KDialog boxes?  I hesitate to
> use a fixed size (in pixels) on status bar items (or other text) in case
> other languages or other fonts require wider item sizes.

Wouldn't doing that make the statusbars even larger vertically?  That's 
something to avoid IMO.

Instead of frames, why don't we just use vertical separators to separate out 
sections of the status bar that need that kind of visual distinction?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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